Benefits

Business Unit Benefits	Human Resources:  Across enterprise workplaces, set benchmarks about idea activity, embed innovation and its supporting values and metrics. Sales and Marketing:  Build innovative capability and competitive edge, professional products and services. Operations:  In each workplace, enhance the role of ideas, and encourage unique insights. Finance and Treasury:  Acknowledge an interface between idea activity, financial activity and the creation of value.
Board and Management Benefits	Stimulate fresh interest about the role of ideas in enterprise performance. Encourage innovation practice: through improved management information, awareness, and insights into what is happening to ideas in business units. Enable business unit managers and others to improve their management of workplace ideas
Stakeholder Action Benefits	Analyze idea dynamics, making it actionable for managers and directors. Improve business unit outcomes, corporate performance and innovation Extend Idea Activity approach to clients, suppliers, and other corporate stakeholders
Workplace Innovation Benefits	Question existing processes, and industry conventions: ask new questions Diversify voices, conversations and participation Identify un-served markets, unmet needs, growth opportunities, clients and services.

Expenditure on wages and salaries usually includes payment for many ideas that are not accessed.